Skillset guide

ArcheAge Gunslinger skills & passives

Rifle attacks and grenade effects.

Ranged gun attacks can pressure several enemies and weaken their defenses. Managing sanity changes the effects of its combat tools.

Gunslinger active skills

Each skill costs one of your 20 points. Some open only after you have spent points elsewhere in Gunslinger.

Continuous Fire
Fire repeated ranged attacks, with extra hits against nearby targets when using a rifle.
Corrosive Shot
Fire a shot that corrodes an enemy's armor and magic resistance.
Explosive Shot
Blast enemies at close range and propel yourself backward with the recoil.
Infectious Shot
Shoot a corroded enemy to spread a harmful infection around them.
Madness Bullet
Load a special bullet whose effect changes with your accumulated sanity.
Retaliatory Shot
Fire a retaliatory shot that grows stronger as your own health falls.
Barrage
Remain in place and fire a sustained volley at enemies ahead.
Return to Sender
Transfer harmful effects from yourself to an enemy.
Death Notice
Mark an enemy for execution, increasing the damage they take.
Destruction
Requires 3 other points in this skillset
Damage enemies in an area and destroy eligible skill-created structures.
Tactical Movement
Requires 4 other points in this skillset
Move quickly in the chosen direction with brief protection against disabling effects.
Rupturing Shot
Requires 6 other points in this skillset
Slow enemies with a shot followed by a delayed explosion.

Passives unlock automatically as you invest in a skillset.

Instinctive Resistance
Unlocks at 3 points
Increases magic defense.
True Reload
Unlocks at 4 points
The relevant bullet skill generates an additional stack of its loss-of-reason effect.
Modified Barrel
Unlocks at 5 points
Modifies the firearm's effective range and increases the number of targets hit by relevant Gunslinger attacks.
Marksmanship Training
Unlocks at 6 points
Increases Gunslinger skill damage.
Evasion Expert
Unlocks at 7 points
Increases evasion. Being attacked during the relevant tactical movement can reset that skill's cooldown.
Fortune Favors Me
Unlocks at 8 points
Increases Reason gained from consecutive shooting.

The 78 classes made of Gunslinger and two other skillsets. Select a class to open it in the calculator.